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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator invite her boyfriend to go in "The Seduction"?

2. What does the narrator find upon exploring her grandmother's attic when she couldn't sleep?

3. In "The Airport" what is used to strip search the narrator?

4. What does the narrator's boyfriend warn the narrator of in "Dinner At Eight"?

5. How much time do Simone and the person she encounters in "Lust in a Bus Depot" spend together post their encounter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the narrator and Norman's relationship in "The Godfather".

2. Why is it so easy for the narrator of "Harlem Blues" to sing the blues?

3. Describe how Yardley and Clarence meet in "Be My Valentine".

4. What is the result of the narrator's night alone with Geren in "Sock It To Me"?

5. Describe the narrator's alter ego in "Nervous".

6. What happens to the narrator in "Sock It To Me" that changes her life?

7. How does "The Airport" end?

8. How does "Be My Valentine" end?

9. Describe what happens to Mira before she marries her husband in "The Bachelorette Party".

10. Why does SHE leave the boy in the library in "Nervous"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast how both narrators in "The Bachelorette Party" and "Vacation of a Lifetime" justify their infidelities against their significant others. How do their reasons support Zane's idea that uninhibited women must fulfill their intimate desires?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the bandit in "The Pussy Bandit" and the irony in that all the women want the bandit to come and perform cunnilingus on them, yet traditionally, women fear men who come into their rooms to fulfill sexual desires.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and discuss the absurdities of the sorority Alpha Phi Fuckem. How is this based on preposterous behavior or is it all that preposterous?

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